Dealers testify their customers can’t afford a new 70¢ to $1.00 tax on heating fuel

Get short shrift from Senators

At the end of the fifth week of the legislative session, the Senate Natural Resources & Energy Committee currently working on the Clean Heat Standard bill, S.5, decided to hear testimony from Vermont fuel dealers – the businesses that will be most negatively impacted by the law, should it pass. While activist groups such as the Energy Action Network, VP…